The Chief of Intelligence Ivan had once served three Emperors of the Red Lion Empire, possessing the privilege to freely come and go from Junlin Tower.
It was Ivan who had learnt in advance about the palace coup staged by the Weiting Family and had reported it overnight to Edward II, enabling him to easily thwart the rebellion against him.
Ivan would also attend the Imperial Conference punctually every week. He could no longer remember how many times he had climbed the stone steps outside the door, inscribed with lion patterns.
However, when he came here now, those stone steps remained, but the grand castle that had once sat atop was now gone, reduced to ruins.
And upon those ruins, sprawled a colossal creature.
It possessed an enormous body; its head alone was as large as half of a small tavern, covered in red scales that glistened with a metallic sheen under the setting sun.
